I am
amazed by the relentless attack of Big
Pharma-controlled media on dietary supplements that help people lose
weight. The FDA, colluding illegally with health officials in Mexico and
Canada, has weight-loss
fraud at the top of their list. The FDA is constantly insinuating
that all weight-loss supplements are fraudulent and unproven, and they
implore all consumers
to beware. As one of the leading clinical nutritionists in this country
and owner of Wellness Resources,
an independent supplement company, I have over twenty years experience
helping individuals lose weight with diet, exercise, and nutritional supplements.
Iím more than happy to weigh in on this subject from my experienced point
of view.

I have
written extensively on the subject of weight management. In 2002 I published
Mastering Leptin, the first book to explain the science behind
the fat-hormone leptin and what it meant for people trying to lose weight
and prevent disease. My new book, The Leptin Diet, will be out
in December of 2006. I explain in great detail how hormonal systems in
your body manage energy, how you can extract more energy from less food,
how to get on top of cravings, and how to lose weight without gaining
it back again. We now know that white adipose tissue (stored fat) is a
metabolic organ that communicates to your brain. Most people struggle
because they are operating their bodies without an ownerís manual.

Based
on the FDA
website it is plain to see that they think they are the authority
on accurate weight loss information. The have convened panels of ďexpertsĒ
and have adopted a gangbuster plan to tackle
the obesity epidemic. They have concluded that people eat too many
calories and that weight loss is all about eating less food. The only
other possibilities they openly promote on their weight loss web page
are exercise, the drug Orlistat (which blocks absorption of fat and thus
vital nutrients from fruits
and vegetables), invasive surgery, and liposuction (a hack job on
a metabolic organ). The FDA does have plenty of expertise overseeing the
onset of the obesity epidemic. And heaven forbid if the casual observer
looks at the waistline of the man running the FDA.

A good
diet and exercise program will always be the foundation of any personís
health plan, especially regarding weight management. No health professional
debates this point and every American knows this already, including those
who are overweight. What on earth makes the FDA think that lecturing people
to eat less and exercise more will somehow magically solve the obesity
epidemic? Most people that are overweight know that it increases their
risk for diabetes, heart disease, many forms of cancer, and the early
onset of every disease of aging. So why are people fat and getting fatter?

The
FDA Blames You

Yes,
the FDA thinks that overweight Americans are weak-spined, no-willpower
individuals who canít walk by their favorite junk food without filling
up. They know people eat in response to stress, stuff themselves full,
and have no control over meal portions. The FDA thinks it is time for
a publicity campaign to knock some common sense into obese Americans.
Their message is fairly straightforward: Donít you realize you are killing
yourself? Donít you know that obesity is a self-inflicted disease? It
is your faulty decision making and poor choices that is causing this epidemic.

Big
Pharma has been spending billions on obesity drug research and is chomping
at the bit. The quick-fix magic diet pill is almost on the market. The
FDA will be proud to promote the new wonder drug as soon as they approve
it, ignoring the severity of the risks.

The
FDA is the Main Cause of the Obesity Epidemic

The
FDA is not alone. There are plenty of other government agencies and profit-mongering
businesses that share the blame for truly causing the obesity epidemic.
However, the FDAís job is to protect the American public from harm. Not
only have they failed miserably by allowing exposure of Americans to a
variety of factors that cause obesity, they are themselves the largest
part of the problem. On top of that they are actively preventing Americans
from learning realistic natural options to help solve the problem.

The
FDA is the primary organization responsible for the massive adulteration
of our food supply. The reason Harvey Wiley, M.D., started the FDA in
1906 was to get rid of all the preservatives and processed food that was
emerging in the market. His good efforts to create a truly wholesome food
supply were
undermined every step of the way by the food industry and the White
House. The FDA was taken over by the groups it was supposed to be regulating.
The quality of the food supply has been in a constantly deteriorating
state ever since.

The
FDA has led the charge. When the FDA got more power in 1938 one of their
first actions was to approve the use of German-produced, coal-tar derived
food coloring chemicals as food additives. Allowing the intake of such
poison over the course of a lifetime, in combination with thousands of
other now FDA-approved chemical additives, is a crime against humanity.
There is no excuse for it.

The
FDA allows and continues to condone the junk food industryís intentional
perversion of appetite signaling systems with MSG, aspartame, sweeteners,
and other chemicals that directly promote food addiction. Do you really
think Americans would be addicted to junk food if the FDA didnít allow
addictive chemicals to be placed in food? The combination of slick advertising
and addictive chemicals has made more than one junk food organization
wealthy. It is a sad day when a child goes down the aisle of a grocery
store singing the jingles of every box of trash on the shelves.

Weíve
known for twenty years, as has the FDA, that trans fats and refined grains
were destroying health, metabolism, and causing disease. All it took was
the FDA making companies state the amount of trans fats on labels and
overnight the junk food industry starts to change. What took the FDA so
long?

The
government-sponsored food pyramid, which has also been making Americans
fat for several decades, still thinks it is acceptable to eat refined
grains every day as part of a healthy diet. Nobody pays any attention
to the food pyramid, except the food industry that uses it is as a guide
to make a few billion easy dollars providing substandard school lunches
to our children, helping to make them fat.

Why
is the FDA now allowing viruses
to be sprayed on food? Why is the FDA allowing genetically modified
food that expresses a toxin in every cell into the food supply? Why is
the FDA refusing to label genetically modified food? Why is the FDA going
to allow
cloned animals in the food supply and not label them either? Why does
the FDA allow synthetic growth hormone to be used in animals? Answer:
profits for multi-national food, biotech, and agribusiness companies.
Healthy food for metabolism is not a priority. In fact, the FDA wants
to protect industry by making sure you canít identify real food by looking
at the label.

The
EPA allows all kinds of toxic chemicals to be applied to food. The recent
ten-year study of chemicals by the EPA was watered down into a Big
Agribusiness-friendly report, since the EPA was terrified of being
sued by the companies that are poisoning Americans. Industrial pollution
is another huge factor that is destroying metabolism. Government-promoted
fluoride and the military industry
contaminate known as perchlorate
are ruining the thyroid glands of our citizens by contaminating our water
supply.

Monsanto,
one of the companies the FDA is allowing to alter the food supply with
genetically modified organisms, has a wonderful history. With the help
of the FDA they brought the neurotoxin aspartame
to the market. They also poisoned the entire planet with metabolism-disrupting
PCBs. PCBs, found in almost all human fat samples, accumulate in stored
fat and damage the metabolic function of white adipose tissue, which is
now recognized as a metabolic organ (like the heart, liver, or kidneys).
Many of the chemicals polluting our environment are known hormone
disrupters that block proper metabolism and cause
obesity.

One
of the bodyís defense systems against excessive pollution is to stuff
these toxins into white adipose tissue (stored fat) in an effort to keep
them away from the heart, liver, and kidneys. Guess what? Not only do
these toxins damage the white adipose tissue organ, it is very difficult
to break down toxic stored fat. We know that PCBs
are elevated in the blood as a person tries to lose weight. Toxicity
during dieting is never discussed by the FDA, yet is a main reason people
canít make stable progress or easily relapse. In fact, forcing your body
to lose weight without proper detoxification systems in place may cause
serious health problems.

Unfortunately,
medications in general simply make people more toxic. Many drugs, like
statins and blood pressure medication, de-energize people and cause them
to gain weight. The FDA sits by while Eli Lilly makes billions poisoning
our children with the antipsychotic medication Zyprexa, making
them fat and diabetic.
Itís not just environmental pollution making people fat. Itís also Big
Pharma pollution.

The
liver uses selenium and sulfur containing enzymes to clear many toxins,
whether pollution or drugs. This pollution-driven excessive nutritional
demand ends up depleting selenium and sulfur, nutrients that are also
required to activate thyroid hormone so it can work in cells to burn calories
properly. This is one of the major causes of obesity in America today,
and the problem seldom shows up on a thyroid lab test. I wonder what drug
the FDA will promote to correct pollution-induced, society-wide deficiencies
of selenium and sulfur? Rest assured, the FDA will never tell Americans
that obesity is being caused, in part, by a deficiency of essential nutrients.
If they did, it would only take about two minutes for Americans to figure
out that the Nazi organophosphate chemicals being used on our food have
been depleting the soil of selenium and sulfur for the past sixty years.
And donít think scientists at the FDA and EPA havenít known all these
facts for many years.

To find
weight loss fraud all the FDA has to do is look in a mirror, or study
their own history.

Supplements
Are Safe and Effective Tools

How
are individuals supposed to have normal metabolism when key nutrients
are missing? Even worse, the food being ingested is adulterated with energy-depleting,
hormone-disrupting, neurologically-damaging, toxic substances.

Dietary
supplements stand at the forefront of safe and effective health options
to improve metabolism and help offset the FDA-sponsored adulteration of
our food supply. Supplements can help people improve their production
of energy, protect the liver and digestive tract from ingested toxicity,
and can directly boost the normal and healthy metabolism of insulin and
fat burning.

There
are thousands of studies supporting the safe and effective use of ingredients
found in nutritional supplements for weight management. Its not just one
or two nutrients that may help, there are hundreds of compounds provided
by Mother Nature that assist metabolism. This doesnít take a degree in
rocket science to figure out. The human species could not have withstood
the challenges of food scarcity without a plethora and abundance of natural
compounds in food that could help metabolism in one way or another. These
compounds are easy to concentrate in nutritional supplements, and they
are very safe.

The
FDA gets all
bent out of shape as soon as anyone suggests nutritional support can
help prevent disease Ė which it obviously does. The FDA has placed a gag
order on the first amendment, threatening small companies with extinction.
The FDA considers itself above
the rule of law. They selectively knock out the competition of Big
Pharma, whose primary interest is a profit strategy based on keeping people
sick and on a long list of poisons. The FDA is little more than a bully
police force for hire, operating like the mob. Big Pharma is their biggest
client.

People
who think supplements will replace a healthy diet and exercise are gravely
mistaken, as are people who think one nutritional ingredient or one companyís
product will be some magical weight loss miracle. There are no short cuts
for healthy weight loss. People make choices about diet and exercise.
And they can certainly choose to try a nutritional product of one kind
or another to help their metabolism.

There
are hundreds of supplement companies that make products. Some companies,
like mine, are focused on true quality and make excellent products to
assist individuals with weight management. Other supplement companies
are owned by Big Pharma and have little concern for your health. A primary
goal of the FDA is to put good nutritional companies out of business and
to turn all therapeutic nutrition into a Big Pharma-controlled industry.
This is why I wrote Fight
for Your Health: Exposing the FDAís Betrayal of America.

Americans
that value their health need to see through the spin and start taking
effective action. The FDA weight loss plan doesnít begin to address the
source of the problems. The FDA actively attacks natural options that
can truly help people. This is part of a delaying tactic to prepare society
for the next Big Pharma drugs.

It is
the job of health professionals to work with individuals to better manage
their weight. The FDAís job is to protect society as a whole from danger.
It is now widely acknowledged that the FDA is inept
and unable to protect Americans from the dangers of drugs. It is equally
clear that the FDA has no intention of protecting Americans from the true
causes of obesity.

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Changing
the food supply into a healthy food supply is a monumental undertaking.
Unless health-conscious Americans demand true reform, our country will
be engulfed by the Big Pharma bills to pay for all the diseases resulting
from the national epidemic of obesity. This problem is rotting the fabric
of our culture at its foundation. It is as great a threat to national
security as any other issue. It is time for Congress to ďjust say noĒ
to Big Pharma money and overhaul the FDA for the benefit of the health
of all Americans.

It
is the job of health professionals to work with individuals to better
manage their weight. The FDAís job is to protect society as a whole from
danger. It is now widely acknowledged that the FDA is inept and unable
to protect Americans from the dangers of drugs.